Summary
Ryan Seekely is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building reliable, automated infrastructure and data pipelines across startups and enterprises, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Aiwyn after leading Column Tax through rapid growth and acquisition. He excels at making complex systems repeatable and operable—enabling teams to deliver customer value while tackling large, “murky” problems like scaling tax automation and high-availability payment infrastructure at Stripe. His background spans game backends, cloud migrations, security and ML-adjacent tooling, and founding startups, giving him a rare mix of hands-on engineering, product intuition, and organizational design. Based in San Francisco, he enjoys both shaping big-picture strategy and diving into code or tooling to unblock teams, and maintains a public portfolio at seekely.com that highlights his practical playbook for automation and operations.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology